{"id":4738,"date":"2020-12-08T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usclub.gotsportsites.com\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2021-07-28T05:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T09:39:34","slug":"recap-day-one-of-the-2020-players-first-virtual-summit-sponsored-by-verizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/recap-day-one-of-the-2020-players-first-virtual-summit-sponsored-by-verizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Day One of the 2020 Players First Virtual Summit, sponsored by Verizon"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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CHARLESTON, S.C. –\u00a0<\/strong>(Dec. 8, 2020) – The 2020 Players First Virtual Summit, sponsored by Verizon, kicked off today. The number of Players First licensed clubs has been growing ever since the\u00a0introduction of the first class<\/a>\u00a0two\u00a0years ago,\u00a0and we are excited this year’s event is available\u00a0to our entire membership to collaborate and learn from Olympic champions, World Cup champions, LaLiga directors and so many other incredible speakers.\u00a0<\/p>

The Summit began with\u00a0an introduction from Kevin Payne\u00a0on the importance of the\u00a0five pillars of Players First<\/a>\u00a0and what the audience should look to take away from this year’s Summit, before he handed it over to\u00a0this year’s keynote speaker, Seb Coe, an\u00a0Olympic champion and President of World Athletics and Non-Executive Chairman of CSM Sport & Entertainment.<\/p>

Coe\u00a0spoke on\u00a0quintessential leadership and\u00a0the importance of finding the right people in whatever situation you are in, trusting those people and\u00a0allowing them to do their jobs without being micromanaged. Coe discussed how the job of a leader is to remove every inhibitor that would prevent the people you are leading\u00a0from doing the very best piece of work at that moment.<\/p>

“You never, in any piece of project management,\u00a0want\u00a0to get to the final moment without having been tested 1, 000 times beforehand,” said Coe. “You don’t want to walk into an Olympic final and deal with something you’ve never dealt with before.”<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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